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  2. Cultural depictions of spiders - Wikipedia

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    Spiders serve as a recurring motif in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. [66] [g] Tolkien included giant spiders in his 1937 book The Hobbit where they roamed Mirkwood, attacking and sometimes capturing the main characters. [68] The character of Ungoliant is featured as a spiderlike entity, and as a personification of Night from his earliest writings.

  3. List of fictional arthropods - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology Arachne was a talented mortal weaver who challenged Athena, goddess of wisdom and crafts, to a weaving contest; this hubris resulted in her being transformed into a spider. Jorōgumo: Spider Japan: A spider demon who can shapeshift into a seductive woman.

  4. Do sleeping humans really swallow 8 spiders a year? - AOL

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    A spider could do this only a few ways, like using its silk to float and land in a sleeping person's mouth. But Maggie Hardy, biochemist at the University of Queensland, said, "You'd have to be ...

  5. Category:Sleep in mythology and folklore - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Sleep in mythology and folklore" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.

  6. Category:Mythological spiders - Wikipedia

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  7. Iktomi - Wikipedia

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    In Lakota mythology, Iktómi is a spider-trickster spirit, and a culture hero for the Lakota people. Alternate names for Iktómi include Ikto , Ictinike , Inktomi , Unktome , and Unktomi . These names are due to the differences in languages between different indigenous nations, as this spider deity was known throughout many of North America's ...

  8. Oneiros - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, dreams were sometimes personified as Oneiros (Ancient Greek: Ὄνειρος, lit. 'dream') or Oneiroi (Ὄνειροι, 'dreams'). [1] In the Iliad of Homer, Zeus sends an Oneiros to appear to Agamemnon in a dream, while in Hesiod's Theogony, the Oneiroi are the sons of Nyx (Night), and brothers of Hypnos (Sleep).

  9. Uttu - Wikipedia

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    Thorkild Jacobsen argued that Uttu was envisioned as a spider spinning a web. [5] However, the connection between Uttu and spiders, or more precisely between her name and the Akkadian word ettūtu ("spider"), is limited to a single text, and it might represent a "learned etymology" (scribal speculation), [3] a folk etymology [1] or simply rely on the terms being nearly homophonous. [6]